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Cancun looking to minimize new passport rules
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) is asking local governments to join together to minimize the impact of new passport requirements, but the Cancun area has already gone ahead with a program to minimize the pending rules.
“Our campaign will reach virtually every American visitor vacationing in Cancun for the next three months,” said Artemio Santos, chief executive officer for the Cancun CVB.
“We are reminding our visitors, as well as their friends and relatives, that passports will soon be mandated for US air travelers starting Jan. 8, 2007,” he added.
Posters and coupons are being distributed to get the message out, he said.
Previously, American adults needed only a valid driver’s license or birth certificate to go back and forth between the US, Mexico and most Caribbean islands.
The new passport requirements could cost the Caribbean $2.6 billion, according to studies by the CHA.
CHA President Peter Odle is asking the governments of the 17 Caribbean countries to come up with a strategy for coping with the new requirements.
Caribbean officials hope they can still delay the new rules.
Report by David Wilkening
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